I hear that at this very moment Calista Flockhart and Kate Moss are working fast and furious toward achieving the ultimate goal of a negative mass, causing instantaneous ejaculations in the approximately 3 guys on this planet who actually find those freaks of nature sexy.
But if faster than light travel winds up being the result of sticking your finger down your throat, I for one will be surprised.
During prohibition, when people were willing to do anything to get something alcoholic down their throat, some drank wood alcohol.
Sometimes it worked out OK, sometimes not. But if their vision started to go as they drank it they immediately stopped drinking and tried to induce vomitting, as it was the only way to prevent the alcohol from killing or at least completely blinding them.
well obviously mastery of the English language is not a prerequisite for being a genius(OK, OK, so now point of the 42 spelling and grammer errors I made in this post...shutup)
The one and only innovative thing Microsoft has ever come up with is that little red squiggly line under misspelled words. I mean, they are a 500 billion dollar company and all, but still, I think that was a pretty good invention.
And to think, if the DOJ breaks them up we will never see another invention so daring, so groundbreaking, so absolutely incredible as that red squiggly line.
We must think long and hard about that before we do something so rash as spliting Microsoft.
"They invade our cyberspace, and we fall back. They assimilate entire companies, and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn HERE. This far NO farther. And I will make them pay for what they've done."
mine pieces together the picture, it's annoying as hell, sometime it will take up to 3 or 4 seconds
I have some other small gripes about the Scientific Atlantic box and the software, but in general I'm pleased, especially with the picture and sound quality
except that I have heard of no plans for a 27 mb/s cable modems. I have a cable modem now, and it's fast enough(a little over 100K/sec upstream, 700K/sec downstream at peak)
But hey, the faster the better(not that most sites can dish out close to even 700K/sec)
Intel is trying to, with USB 2. However 1) USB 2 still isn't as good as FireWire for things like 2) USB 2 isn't here yet 3) by the time it is here, FireWire will be at 800Mbps
And yeah, all these Lee-nooks hackers love to slam Apple for trying to charge for it. Sorry, but when you invest large amounts of money in R&D to develop something like FireWire, you charge for it.
Also, Apple is in a consortium w/ other companies(like Sony), and the charge is now just 25, and with that you can have as many ports as you want, instead of the $1/port like it was before. And AFAIK, the money is split between 6 or 7 companies that all put money into developing FireWire.
If FireWire dies, it will be because Intel has so much power that they can crush good technologies with FUD and vaporware.
And if Intel doesn't crush FireWire, all us Mac users will laugh as we plug digital video cameras into our already year old Blue G3s.
BTW, IIRC Compaq had the first machines w/ FireWire, but there are still very few PCs that have it. Some of Sony's laptop also include it. But since Apple owns the name "FireWire", Compaq calls it IEEE 1394, and Sony calls it iLink.
Check out the quality of the movie trailers there. I have a Mac and a cable modem, and Sorenson kicks ass big time. I don't know what you're talking about it having all these problems, it works flawlessly for me.
Screw MPEG, yeah DVD and MP3s are nice, but for the best quality with the smallest file size, Sorenson is it.
In the beginning it was controlled only by Real. Then Microsoft got in. Then Apple did.
Apple has been taking marketshare away from MS. If they can do it, Open Source people can do it. You should stop complaining and start coding. These companies have market share because they make good products(well except for that Media Player shit), if you want to make a good product, people will use it.
16MB is not enough. You could store what, like 3-5 songs on that? Woo-freakin-hoo.
I'm waiting for MP3 players w/ a whole lot of space. There are digital cameras w/ 320 megs of space. If I could get an MP3 player w/ that much space, I would be happy.
I believe it would be:
"But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown." - Carl Sagan
other places say the quote was Newton/Einstein/Bozo. who knows? never heard Groucho Marx in there though, so I'm pretty sure that's wrong.
poison an enemy's water supply - do an attack at night and shoot anything that glows put it in a pool/lake so people can swim at night or, have people drink it before they go swim at night, so people can see each other/to help a lifegaurd see people who are drowning put it in water and water other people's lawn's with it, thus really pissing them off when it gets dark use it in ink for your pen/in books, so you can read at night more easily blood for that Lizard-guy that was mentioned a few days back put a few drops in your eyes
and, since you need Calcium for all this stuff to work apparently, the official slogan for all of these fine products will be.....
Well it's an interesting point about how he may have become more of a celebrity due to his illness. But is that necessarily a bad thing?
A British comedian made a joke about how people would at first glance think Hawking was stupid, and said:
"People with physical disabilities are often mistaken for having mental ones as well. In a similar way, athletes are often asked their opinions." - Simon Munnery
Now my point is that maybe having Stephen Hawking a celebrity is a good thing, because it helps to weaken the perception that all people who look like that are retarded. I mean, it's almost comical to see how mentally disabled he looks, and how smart he really is. You almost think it has to be a prank or something. It could be good for people to see it's not.
Anyway, I like the guy. Did you see the time he was a guest star on Simpsons? Now that was not only very funny, but very refreshing too, to see he has a sense of self-deprecating humor, something all of us need a bit more of.
Anyway, just my 2
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No, MacOS X is not totally open source. The GUI and other higher-level stuff absolutely are not open source. There has been no change, it is still just Darwin which is open-source.
But some of you have got to stop criticizing Jobs and Apple for lying. It was shoddy reporting by the person who wrote the article, and a crappy post by Cmdr. Taco. Jobs never said that the whole OS was open source, and if Rob knew a damn thing about Apple he'd know that will never happen in a million years. The MacOS is the GUI of the MacOS. That is Apple's crown jewels. I hate to tell this to all you Linux users who were wetting your pants with glee at being able to steal the GUI(that is not flamebait, there is a post marked up saying that very thing), but it ain't gonna happen.
OTOH, the real new from today was what was announced and what wasn't.
All the new apple.com stuff is really great, and will be very attractive for new users and other ones. The child protection software sounds very promising, the mac.com e-mail address is good publicity, the free web space that integrates with the Finder could be very useful(especially if we could get more than 20 megs), and so are the other features like iReview and the free space for a home page.
In addition, the new UI for MacOS X, named Aqua, looks a little chessy/child-like but also looks to have some great features. I think it's a step in the right direction. Also, the fact that Mac users will finally have an advanced, buzz-word compliant OS is very exciting. Also, Jobs dropping the interm part from his title is good news for Apple and should be great news for the stock.
However, there is something that has been glossed over, and that is that there are no new machines. In case any of you have forgotten, the fastest Mac currently shipping is only 450MHz, and the prices are way too high. The G4 may be faster than the PIII and the Athlon, but it's not twice as fast. With Intel at 800MHz, Apple has a serious problem. No one here knows how serious, but I would bet people high up at Motorola, IBM and Apple do. What they know and we don't is when Motorola's new, 700MHz and over G4+s will actually be coming. Many Mac users have for a while been holding off the hordes of critical PC users with the claim that faster Macs would be here, now, at MWSF. They are not.
Apple looks to have the software part of the bargain all wrapped up, with MacOS X, Quicktime, the Internet integration and many new games and apps coming to the MacOS. However, if you start seeing games appearing that require 700MHz PIIIs or K7s to run, and Apple is still only shipping 450 or 500MHz G4s, I would suggest selling your Apple stock.
The fact is, this issue may be almost completely out of Apple's hands. If Motorola and IBM can't deliver, Apple is going to screwed. The only good choice left for Apple at that point would be to bail out on PowerPC and go to Alpha or x86(Alpha might be better because it would do something to differtiate between Macs and PCs). However, as I said, Motorola is working on much faster G4s, and they have demoed one at 780MHz. If they can ship them by Spring or so, Apple will be OK. But consider Motorola's recent record with delivering chips on time.
As a Mac user, I am now extremely worried about Apple. I will be buying a new computer in the late summer of next year, and I can tell you that, like other Mac users I've talked to, I will not buy a Mac if they are 1/2 the speed of a comprably priced PC.
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I hear that at this very moment Calista Flockhart and Kate Moss are working fast and furious toward achieving the ultimate goal of a negative mass, causing instantaneous ejaculations in the approximately 3 guys on this planet who actually find those freaks of nature sexy.
But if faster than light travel winds up being the result of sticking your finger down your throat, I for one will be surprised.
See, I've always said it like "may-ta", but in the conference they were clearly saying trans-met-a
how do you guys pronounce it, and are both ways correct? and not just for transmeta, but for meta-anything.
may-ta just sounds so much better to me.
During prohibition, when people were willing to do anything to get something alcoholic down their throat, some drank wood alcohol.
Sometimes it worked out OK, sometimes not. But if their vision started to go as they drank it they immediately stopped drinking and tried to induce vomitting, as it was the only way to prevent the alcohol from killing or at least completely blinding them.
bwahahaha
moderators you suck
Ever seen "Demolition Man"? Personally I'd rather someone just stole my credit card.
There are lots of independent companies and organizations who are salivating at the chance to get into space.
Some I know of(post any I miss, there are tons that I haven't saved the URLs for):
http://asi.org
http://www.rotaryrocket.com/(really cool)
http://www.space.com
http://www.marssociety.com/(with a petition)
http://www.space-frontier.org/
http://bigelowaerospace.com/
I think you'll find killing Piggy doesn't make people love you.
Sucks to your ass-mar.
well obviously mastery of the English language is not a prerequisite for being a genius(OK, OK, so now point of the 42 spelling and grammer errors I made in this post...shutup)
The one and only innovative thing Microsoft has ever come up with is that little red squiggly line under misspelled words. I mean, they are a 500 billion dollar company and all, but still, I think that was a pretty good invention.
And to think, if the DOJ breaks them up we will never see another invention so daring, so groundbreaking, so absolutely incredible as that red squiggly line.
We must think long and hard about that before we do something so rash as spliting Microsoft.
AOL must be stopped. The madness must end now.
"They invade our cyberspace, and we fall back. They assimilate entire companies, and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn HERE. This far NO farther. And I will make them pay for what they've done."
mine pieces together the picture, it's annoying as hell, sometime it will take up to 3 or 4 seconds
I have some other small gripes about the Scientific Atlantic box and the software, but in general I'm pleased, especially with the picture and sound quality
Rochester, NY? That's where I am. I got digital cable and it's pretty nice(except early on it kept screwing up and you'd see the picture digitizing).
:)
What's sweet is ordering the pay per view movies and taping them. If only I had a DVD writer
Well anyway, the prices couldn't go up much higher than as is. It's currently ~$100/month for cable TV and the cable modem. Damn you Time Warner.
except that I have heard of no plans for a 27 mb/s cable modems. I have a cable modem now, and it's fast enough(a little over 100K/sec upstream, 700K/sec downstream at peak)
But hey, the faster the better(not that most sites can dish out close to even 700K/sec)
Intel is trying to, with USB 2. However
1) USB 2 still isn't as good as FireWire for things like
2) USB 2 isn't here yet
3) by the time it is here, FireWire will be at 800Mbps
And yeah, all these Lee-nooks hackers love to slam Apple for trying to charge for it. Sorry, but when you invest large amounts of money in R&D to develop something like FireWire, you charge for it.
Also, Apple is in a consortium w/ other companies(like Sony), and the charge is now just 25, and with that you can have as many ports as you want, instead of the $1/port like it was before. And AFAIK, the money is split between 6 or 7 companies that all put money into developing FireWire.
If FireWire dies, it will be because Intel has so much power that they can crush good technologies with FUD and vaporware.
And if Intel doesn't crush FireWire, all us Mac users will laugh as we plug digital video cameras into our already year old Blue G3s.
BTW, IIRC Compaq had the first machines w/ FireWire, but there are still very few PCs that have it. Some of Sony's laptop also include it. But since Apple owns the name "FireWire", Compaq calls it IEEE 1394, and Sony calls it iLink.
www.apple.com/trailers/
Check out the quality of the movie trailers there. I have a Mac and a cable modem, and Sorenson kicks ass big time. I don't know what you're talking about it having all these problems, it works flawlessly for me.
Screw MPEG, yeah DVD and MP3s are nice, but for the best quality with the smallest file size, Sorenson is it.
In the beginning it was controlled only by Real. Then Microsoft got in. Then Apple did.
Apple has been taking marketshare away from MS. If they can do it, Open Source people can do it. You should stop complaining and start coding. These companies have market share because they make good products(well except for that Media Player shit), if you want to make a good product, people will use it.
16MB is not enough. You could store what, like 3-5 songs on that? Woo-freakin-hoo.
I'm waiting for MP3 players w/ a whole lot of space. There are digital cameras w/ 320 megs of space. If I could get an MP3 player w/ that much space, I would be happy.
I believe it would be:
"But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown." - Carl Sagan
other places say the quote was Newton/Einstein/Bozo. who knows? never heard Groucho Marx in there though, so I'm pretty sure that's wrong.
You know, Carmack has posted on Slashdot before:
o hn+Carmack
http://slashdot.org/users.pl?op=userinfo&nick=J
maybe he'd like to comment?
poison an enemy's water supply - do an attack at night and shoot anything that glows
put it in a pool/lake so people can swim at night
or, have people drink it before they go swim at night, so people can see each other/to help a lifegaurd see people who are drowning
put it in water and water other people's lawn's with it, thus really pissing them off when it gets dark
use it in ink for your pen/in books, so you can read at night more easily
blood for that Lizard-guy that was mentioned a few days back
put a few drops in your eyes
and, since you need Calcium for all this stuff to work apparently, the official slogan for all of these fine products will be.....
"Got Milk?"
Well it's an interesting point about how he may have become more of a celebrity due to his illness. But is that necessarily a bad thing?
A British comedian made a joke about how people would at first glance think Hawking was stupid, and said:
"People with physical disabilities are often mistaken for having mental ones as well. In a similar way, athletes are often asked their opinions." - Simon Munnery
Now my point is that maybe having Stephen Hawking a celebrity is a good thing, because it helps to weaken the perception that all people who look like that are retarded. I mean, it's almost comical to see how mentally disabled he looks, and how smart he really is. You almost think it has to be a prank or something. It could be good for people to see it's not.
Anyway, I like the guy. Did you see the time he was a guest star on Simpsons? Now that was not only very funny, but very refreshing too, to see he has a sense of self-deprecating humor, something all of us need a bit more of.
Anyway, just my 2
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Cmdr. Taco says *grin*
No, MacOS X is not totally open source. The GUI and other higher-level stuff absolutely are not open source. There has been no change, it is still just Darwin which is open-source.
But some of you have got to stop criticizing Jobs and Apple for lying. It was shoddy reporting by the person who wrote the article, and a crappy post by Cmdr. Taco. Jobs never said that the whole OS was open source, and if Rob knew a damn thing about Apple he'd know that will never happen in a million years. The MacOS is the GUI of the MacOS. That is Apple's crown jewels. I hate to tell this to all you Linux users who were wetting your pants with glee at being able to steal the GUI(that is not flamebait, there is a post marked up saying that very thing), but it ain't gonna happen.
OTOH, the real new from today was what was announced and what wasn't.
All the new apple.com stuff is really great, and will be very attractive for new users and other ones. The child protection software sounds very promising, the mac.com e-mail address is good publicity, the free web space that integrates with the Finder could be very useful(especially if we could get more than 20 megs), and so are the other features like iReview and the free space for a home page.
In addition, the new UI for MacOS X, named Aqua, looks a little chessy/child-like but also looks to have some great features. I think it's a step in the right direction. Also, the fact that Mac users will finally have an advanced, buzz-word compliant OS is very exciting. Also, Jobs dropping the interm part from his title is good news for Apple and should be great news for the stock.
However, there is something that has been glossed over, and that is that there are no new machines. In case any of you have forgotten, the fastest Mac currently shipping is only 450MHz, and the prices are way too high. The G4 may be faster than the PIII and the Athlon, but it's not twice as fast. With Intel at 800MHz, Apple has a serious problem. No one here knows how serious, but I would bet people high up at Motorola, IBM and Apple do. What they know and we don't is when Motorola's new, 700MHz and over G4+s will actually be coming. Many Mac users have for a while been holding off the hordes of critical PC users with the claim that faster Macs would be here, now, at MWSF. They are not.
Apple looks to have the software part of the bargain all wrapped up, with MacOS X, Quicktime, the Internet integration and many new games and apps coming to the MacOS. However, if you start seeing games appearing that require 700MHz PIIIs or K7s to run, and Apple is still only shipping 450 or 500MHz G4s, I would suggest selling your Apple stock.
The fact is, this issue may be almost completely out of Apple's hands. If Motorola and IBM can't deliver, Apple is going to screwed. The only good choice left for Apple at that point would be to bail out on PowerPC and go to Alpha or x86(Alpha might be better because it would do something to differtiate between Macs and PCs). However, as I said, Motorola is working on much faster G4s, and they have demoed one at 780MHz. If they can ship them by Spring or so, Apple will be OK. But consider Motorola's recent record with delivering chips on time.
As a Mac user, I am now extremely worried about Apple. I will be buying a new computer in the late summer of next year, and I can tell you that, like other Mac users I've talked to, I will not buy a Mac if they are 1/2 the speed of a comprably priced PC.
http://slashdot.org/users.pl?op=userinfo&nick=chee se63
"2 hundred and foty dollars, worth of puddin. awwww yeahh"
hehe
Very simple. Jenni on Jennicam(in the Slashbox), nude. No one can beat that.